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For some owners, the reckoning comes gradually—an animal that no longer fits through a dog door, a fence that needs reinforcing, a zoning notice from a town that classifies pigs as livestock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Chief Justice John Roberts pressed counsel on whether a sex-based classification in sports necessarily classifies based on transgender status.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026
India's pollution watchdog classifies AQI levels of 101–200 as moderate, 201–300 as poor, 301–400 as very poor, and anything above 400 as severe.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025
TE classifies all those businesses as industrial, but it also has a large automotive business.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
He learns the endless terms, the vocabulary that classifies the details of ancient buildings, writing them on separate index cards and making illustrations on the back: architrave, entablature, tympanum, voussoir.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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